Los Angeles - Culver City - Nightlife

10797 Washington Blvd., Los Angeles 90232
310-841-6679

Blind Barber

The male version of Beauty Shop, this bar-within-a-barber-shop originated in New York's East Village and has made a second home for itself in Culver City. Haircuts, beard trims, and shaves all come... read more

10899 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles 90034
310-842-8066

Oldfield's Liquor Room

The latest from the guys behind Bigfoot Bar, this Culver City watering hole seeks to take you back to 1910 for a cocktail (or four). The ingredients for the historic drink menu run the gamut from... read more

3843 Main St., Los Angeles 90232
310-559-7707

Seventy-Seven

This understated speakeasy in Culver City is the kind of place to have up your sleeve when you and your date are looking for a quiet corner. The vintage wallpaper, gleaming leather bar stools, st... read more

2692 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles 90034
310-837-3297

Mandrake

Culver City exploded with artists and their work. But where to go after the galleries close? Some intrepid souls reopened an abandoned gay bar and turned it into arts central. Lines out the door af... read more

3847 Main St., Los Angeles 90232
310-836-9463

BottleRock

Winos' nirvana where all of their copious vintages are available by the glass. Excellent concept liquors one-up in an effort to obscure Ikea furnishings, cheese plates, and pain-in-the-keister crow... read more

10899 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles
310-842-8066

Saints N' Sinners

Sexy, strange land with a circular pit of flames! Which camp do you belong to? Satan-devoted Suicide Girls? Or those white-pantsed lushes shaking their thangs like they grew up in the hood? Maybe y... read more

9300 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles
310-558-9302

Carbon

We love this place. Beautiful red-tinged dark mirage in a dive desert. Room refugees Noble & Hinton bring Hollywood hip to Culver City for silent flicks, spinning DJs, and bartenders that'll make y... read more

12249 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles
310-390-1076

Good Hurt

That's how we like it to hurt, especially when playing doctor. Put John 'Cougar' Mellencamp aside. Sexy nurses make every day Halloween in this spacious pharmacy of well-grooved naughtiness. No har... read more

10433 National Blvd., Los Angeles 90034
310-837-5245

Boardwalk 11

Quirky and lush karaoke/martini lounge. Low-key and rather friendly. Listen to locals break out their chords while sipping martinis or one of one hundred-plus vodkas. Beer on tap, crazy characters ... read more

3267 Motor Ave., Los Angeles 90034
310-559-9648

Irish Times

Palms-sided pub offers Irish jamboree in isolation, just knowing housing costs will drive you under the 10 Freeway eventually anyway. Crowd is a mix of people who feel a fondness for the imported E... read more

10717 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles 90034
310-841-6525

Zabumba

Colorful, lively Brazilian themed bar for mixed crowd who likes to dance. Food not the best, and staff is on island time, without island friendliness. Latin music: salsa, merengue, bossa nova, rhum... read more

5401 Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles
310-390-2489

Roger's Exciting Tattle-Tale Room

Love to talk shit? So do the regulars, bartenders, and proprietors at this dive whose motto is: A Disgusting Place to Meet. Dysfunctional family fun with truckers, barflies, and pissed off blue col... read more

3967 Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles
310-390-1328

Cinema Bar

Oldest School local, featuring live music, sparse honky-tonk décor, affable staff and hoards of Bohemian devotees. The bands can be a little all over the place with Latin rhythms, blues, and hard r... read more

10400 Culver Blvd., Los Angeles 90232
310-839-3892

Backstage

City's best dive? Real life pimps mix with Sony film biz snits, local alkies and just plain oddballs for hourly happy hours. Fifty-year-old dive used to be a hangout for the OZ Munchkins and Cary G... read more